Perfect pistou soup
This soup is jam packed with vegetables and flavour. It's easy to make, filling, healthy and extremely tasty. It can be served for lunch or dinner, with a nice crusty roll.
Ingredients
Serves: 10
- 3 litres vegetable stock
- 475ml water
- 225g fresh fine green beans, rinsed, trimmed and snapped into bite-size pieces
- 4 courgettes, cut into small cubes
- 3 carrots, cut into bite size pieces
- 4 potatoes, cut into bite sized pieces
- 1 bunch basil, leaves picked from stems
- 10 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 3 tomatoes, chopped
- 125ml olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 (410g) tin kidney beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 (410g) tin canellini beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 (400g) tin chopped tomatoes
- 225g spaghetti, broken into 5cm pieces
- 65g Gruyere cheese, grated
- 40g Parmigiano Reggiano (Parmesan) cheese, grated
Method
Prep:30min ›
Cook:1hr ›
Ready in:1hr30min
- Bring the vegetable stock and water to the boil in a large saucepan. Stir in the fine green beans, courgettes, carrots and potatoes. Return to the boil, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer 45 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prepare the pistou by processing the basil leaves, garlic, tomatoes, olive oil and salt together in a food processor until finely chopped; set aside.
- Stir the kidney beans, canellini beans, chopped tomatoes and spaghetti into the soup and return to a simmer. Cook until the spaghetti is tender, about 10 minutes. Remove the soup from the heat and stir in the pistou. Sprinkle with Gruyere cheese and Parmigiano Reggiano to serve.
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A great, hearty, healthy & low-fat soup for a chilly Fall night. Definitely add the zucchini and green beans (I added sliced baby portobello mushrooms also) toward the END of cooking time, not at the beginning, or they'll be mush. I used tiny elbow macaroni instead of broken spaghetti, and cooked it separately before adding to the pot. The tomato-basil pistou definitely makes this soup (and sidenote: try dunking some bread in the pistou before you add it all to the soup...mmm!). On it's own, it's just an ordinary (bit bland) veggie/bean soup but the pistou gives it a great flavour punch. Served with some shavings of a good parm reggiano, crusty bread, and a decent chardonnay, this is a very warming and satisfying meal. Looking forward to taking leftovers for lunch at work this week! (makes a big pot) - 28 Sep 2009 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
After spending quite some time cubing veggies, I found them to be mushy after the 45 min simmering time....and I even simmered on low, not med-low as the recipe suggested. It just stunk that I had mush before even reaching steps 2 and 3. I hope the end result is tasty enough for me to want to try again, only this time with my alterations such as adding the zucchini after the green beans, potatoes, and carrots. - 23 Sep 2009 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
Very yummy with a few changes. Simmer veggies minus the zucchini on low for 30 min. Add zucchini when you add the noodles. I also added swiss chard because I had it and used wheat spiral noodles again because that is what I had. Also added browned ground turkey. Important thing with soup is to use a good quality stock. My 6 yr old who every evening looks at dinner and says, "YUCKY" ate a good size bowl of this and enjoyed it. I like to cook things from all over the world and my kids and I look up on the globe where the recipe is from. Thanks for a yummy french recipe. - 24 Sep 2009 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)